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My name is Marcin Wichary (he/him). I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

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Trust your fingers

For a few months now, when re-running search queries in Bluesky’s iOS app, I ended up occasionally arriving on the wrong search, and it happened enough that I started suspecting something’s afoot. (Ahand?)

So I opened the app on my Mac via iPhone Mirroring, and started clicking testing carefully. This is what I saw:

Turns out there was something wrong there – the touch targets are so vertically lopsided you’ll often end up tapping the item below by accident.

I reported the bug to Bluesky, and a few days later I saw Norbert Heger doing a similar thing vis-a-vis the macOS Tahoe rounded corner bug (previously):

Heger’s method is automated and a lot smarter than mine, but I enjoyed seeing these parallel efforts.

What’s the lesson here? I think it’s this: Trust your fingers, and occassionally speak for them as they can’t speak for themselves.